Parliamentary assembly debate on alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states[12/01/2006]

A debate on alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states will be held today at 10 a.m. by the Parliamentary Assembly. On this occasion, the Assembly rapporteur, Dick Marty (Switzerland, ALDE) is due to make his interim assessment in an information memorandum that will be published online at 9 a.m. He will also give a press conference at 12.15. The debate and the press conference will be broadcast live. During the week the Assembly will also debate the need for international condemnation of the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes and human rights violations in the Chechen Republic.
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